Knowledge Exchange http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/

TF-EMC2, Lyon - 14 February 2011Christopher Brown

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German Research Foundation (DFG)

Denmark’s Electronic Research Library

Joint Information Systems Committee(United Kingdom)

SURFfoundation(Netherlands)

Shared aim: innovative use of ICT to support Research and Education

Who is Knowledge Exchange?

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Our vision“To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet”

Bonn October 2010

KE Approach

By sharing knowledge, exploring differences, collaborating and promoting international dialogue, the Knowledge Exchange seeks to:• Increase the return on national investment in ICT

infrastructure, services and projects in higher education and research

• Add genuine value to the activities of the partners• Support the European agenda by promoting better access to

information resources in higher education and research• Create the optimal virtual environment for the Higher

Education and Research Community who need to choose from a wide array of possible technologies and approaches

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Working Groups

Primary Research Data Open Access Licensing Interoperability of Digital Repositories Virtual Research Environments

n.b. no Access & Identity Management WG as there is TERENA

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Activities in the years 2005 - 2010

Petition to EU for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results

Tender for Multinational Licences Institutional repositories workshop Amsterdam Project on enhanced theses Workshops on collecting usage statistics from

repositories Briefing papers on copyright and usage statistics

And also, 3 examples of activities since 2009 ...

‘Costs and Benefits of Open Access in UK, Netherlands and Denmark’

• Three national studies during the first half of 2009• Joint study added value to already existing knowledge• Presented in seminar to European Commission

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Studies on Persistent Identifiers

Long term identification for storage & retrieval– complex field (many alternative developments)– need for open, non proprietary, trusted HE&R friendly system– Collaboration of KE and relevant external partners

State-of-affairs study regarding Persistent Identifier usage in 6 countries

User Requirements for a global resolver infrastructure

Roadmap to achieve a working global resolver service

June 2011 workshop

Workshop (Berlin 23/24 Sept 2009)

‘Main drivers for successful re-use of research data’

Focus on benefits, challenges and obstacles of re-using data from a researcher’s perspective

Despite individual differences characterising the disciplines, recurrent pattern of comparable challenges and obstacles: Technical issues Methodological implications Social background Incentives for researchers required

Workshop (Rotterdam 23/24 June 2010)

‘VREs– the next steps’Exchange of landscape studies (JISC and SURF)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/vrelandscapestudy.aspx

http://www.surffoundation.nl/nl/publicaties/Documents/Collaboratories%20Connecting%20Researchers9april.pdf

Variety of Projects in partner countries

Findings:

• Impact of VREs expected to grow further

• Facilitate international collaboration

• KE in position to work on this

Looking at strategic and sustainable funding issues

Workshop Nov 2011

Way forward

• Continuing the exchange of knowledge• Informing and giving rise to other collaborations

TERENA – TF-EMC2

Utrecht meeting – KE and TERENA

Technical perspective – related to TERENA work

KE moving away from tech focus and looking at strategy/funding long term

From KE:

– Researchers collaborating across national boundaries

– International projects with identity/middleware requirements

Contact VRE Working Group with any questions

“Interoperability of Digital Repositories” WG – more technical focus

Questions?

http://www.knowledge-exchange.info

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